We are very happy to welcome the publishers of one of the best biking books every produced — Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance — to the Appingo family this week. Velo Press — a smaller, but highly efficient publisher of a series of endurance sport titles has started to implement the Appingo [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘For the love of publishing’
September 3, 2009
Flatworld Knowledge: Big idea for educational publishing
I’ve been meaning to do a quick shout-out to Flatworld Knowledge for a couple of weeks. We met and had a great conversation with with Jeff Shelstad (one of the founders) at the end of August. If you don’t know Flatworld, you should. They are a recent, VC-backed start-up looking to make a significant, sustainable [...]
August 24, 2009
AppingoJim: Publisher Admits that Internet “Ain’t All Bad.”
Publisher Admits that Internet “Ain’t All Bad.”
By AppingoJim, staff
NEW YORK, NY — Publishing executives are showing signs of warming up to this whole “Internet thing.”
“Up until now, the Internet has proven to be nothing but one big thorn in my side,” said one high-ranking publishing [...]
August 7, 2009
Have you been gruntled lately?
A friend asked me this question the other day, “Have you been gruntled lately”?
I have to say, it sounded kind of kinky, so I wasn’t sure how to answer.
Instead I asked, have you?
And she said, “yes, last night I was gruntled with lobster roll and crab cakes”. She immediately knew I hadn’t the foggiest clue [...]
August 7, 2009
Publishers Rejoice! Appingo Saves Production.
By Appingo Jim, staff
Publishers and their production staffs have joined together this week to celebrate the launch of the Appingo Production Management Suite.
“Finally, I’ll be able to see my kids before bedtime,” one particularly enthusiastic Production Manager exclaimed.
The breakthrough Appingo web-based software brings clarity and efficiency to the process of making books. A simultaneous, [...]
August 6, 2009
Good Seth Godin post on Solving Problems
Seth Godin had a good post today about the difference between solving problems and just creating solutions. Too many times, companies create and try to sell solutions that aren’t really solving any problems. Reading this post made me feel good about the way in which we built the Appingo system. We wrote more about our [...]
July 1, 2009
Publishers Debt Dilema
The picture looks pretty gray.
There’s a ton of pressure on publishers today. Sales are down, the internet is re-structuring the what information is gathered, managed and and distributed. Outsourcing doesn’t work as well as it does in pure manufactured products. What to do?
Check out Penelope Trunk on Gen Y and the attitude of mentoring, job [...]
May 11, 2009
Publisher Fires Landlord!
A trade publisher fired her landlord today.
In a move to save jobs and re-invigorate a 50 year old publishing company, an Appingo customer fired the landlord, saved a job and set the staff up to work from home. One editor was ecstatic about NOT having to commute an hour and a half each way. “I [...]
